2021/Schedule

WikiConference North America 2021 takes place over three days, October 8 - 10.

We have several concurrent tracks:

• Tracks Red and Blue are filled with presentations. These are also live-streamed to YouTube and available in both English and Spanish.
• Track Green is primarily workshops and discussions.
• The edit-a-thons track holds edit-a-thons and other collaborative sessions.
• The Unconference is where anyone can propose or spontaneously organize a mini-presentation, discussion, or workshop on a wiki-related topic. Please add sessions to our unconference page.

There are 5 unscheduled minutes between most sessions to allow for session wrap-ups, switching rooms, and taking quick breaks.

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Translation

We're pleased to provide translations between English and Spanish for our Blue and Red tracks!

When watching a presentation in either of those tracks, you will see an option on the right-hand column to change your language and receive an audio feed from a live interpreter. Attendees may also change Hopin's interface language by clicking their avatar at the top-right and selecting "Languages" in the dropdown.

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Friday, October 8

Icon Key:   Presentation   Discussion   Panel   Workshop   Edit-a-thon

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Breakout Room)	Edit-a-thons	Unconference (add your own!)
12:00 - 12:25 25 minutes	Welcome to WikiConference North America 2021! Introduction (red track)
12:30 - 13:10 40 minutes	Global templates, and their special challenges for English, French, and Spanish languages	Glassbox: betting for proactive transparency against misinformation	Expert fact-checkers rely on Wikipedia. You and your students should too!
13:15 - 13:40 25 minutes	OpenHistoricalMap: Historical Geography Wiki style	How the Smithsonian and Wiki Education are adding biographies of American women
13:40 - 13:50 10 minutes	Break
13:50 - 14:20 30 minutes	Plenary: Breaking the gender gap on Wikipedia / Rompiendo la brecha de género en Wikipedia (Carmen Alcázar)
14:25 - 14:50 25 minutes	News On Wiki, Phase 2 complete; Future steps with ASU journalism school	2Rāth: To Digitally Preserve Arab Literary Heritage	From sign shop to desktop
14:55 - 15:20 25 minutes	Introduction to Enterprise MediaWiki		How to tie together Commons, Wikidata, and possibly Wikipedia by using SuggestedTags	Emerging technologies edit-a-thon: nano and AI, oh my!
15:25 - 15:50 25 minutes	WikiProject Clinical Trials, Wikipedia for Research		Programs & Events Dashboard - Tips & Tricks for Event Organizers		Clarifying property application for effective SPARQL queries
15:55 - 16:20 25 minutes	Survey Says: What Wiki Education's program participants say about joining the Wikipedia and Wikidata communities	WikiLetters Systematic Review
16:25 - 16:50 25 minutes	Links, Wikipedia, and Knowledge Gaps	Current developments in Wikipedia-integrated academic journals
16:55 - 17:20 25 minutes	State of Education Panel (Information Has Value: Engaging Students as Wikipedia Editors, Wikipedia as Information Literacy Vector: Authority and Undergraduate Students)		Lightning talks (Friday Lightning Talks Room)
17:30 - 18:30 60 minutes
18:30 - 19:30	Break!
19:30+	Virtual World Retreat - WorkAdventure / Happy Hour
20:00 - 21:00	LIVE: Wikipedia Weekly video podcast – The Depths of Wikipedia An evening of quirky fun and trivia with Annie Rauwerda, creator of the highly popular Instagram and Tiktok feeds @depthsofwikipedia. Join users Fuzheado, Pharos, Rosiestep, and Annie Rauwerda in a competitive round of Wikipedia trivia. Find out how Annie got more than 350,000 followers on Instagram and more than 4 million likes on Tiktok. Watch the Youtube Live stream
21:00 - 21:30					Movement Charter Drafting Committee selection workshop for North American affiliates

Saturday, October 9

Icon Key:   Presentation   Discussion   Panel   Workshop   Edit-a-thon

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Breakout Room)	Edit-a-thons	Unconference (add your own!)
11:45 - 12:00 15 minutes	Welcome to Day 2 of WikiConference North America 2021!
12:00 - 12:55 55 minutes	Engaging the University Community with Wikipedia Curating and Creation		VRT & WMF Legal: Workflow Discussion	Demystifying Copyright: Unlocking a Treasure of Content in Journals and Periodicals (On Zoom)
13:00 - 13:55 55 minutes	Classroom Project Showcase (When Students contribute to Wikipedia: A Local Initiative with Global Reach, Teaching Engineering Writing and Ethics with the Wikipedia Writing Assignment, Wikipedia, The Future of Inclusivity in Education)		Add your country to WikiProject Govdirectory
14:00 - 14:40 40 minutes	Building Organizing Tools for Campaigns and Editing Events	How do you even teach Wikidata?	Reserved for follow-up questions & post-panel discussion following the Classroom Project Showcase	Vaccine Safety Edit-a-thon
14:45 - 15:25 40 minutes	Editing seems too hard; let's fix that		Community feedback wanted: Universal Code of Conduct draft enforcement guidelines		[starts at 14:30 EDT in the Caribbean Edit-a-Thon Room] Caribbean Digital Human Rights Community Workspace & Edit-A-Thon
15:25 - 15:35 10 minutes	Break
15:35 - 16:05 30 minutes	Plenary: Trust and Knowledge on the Global | Local | Glocal Level (red stage) -- Connie Moon Sehat
16:10 - 16:25 15 minutes	Non-English Editions of Wikipedia Have a Misinformation Problem	"So Many Books, So Little Time": Wikipedia as Odd Literature
16:25 - 16:40 15 minutes		How Do the Top Ten Languages in North America Fare on Their Wikipedias?
16:40 - 16:55 15 minutes	Why Consensus Fails	Black Lunch Table Strategies for Knowledge gaps
16:55 - 17:10 15 minutes		Decolonizing Wikipedia
17:15 - 18:00 45 minutes		Engaging subject-matter experts during a national emergency: Wiki Education and COVID-19	Lightning talks
18:00 - 19:30	Break
19:30+	Lounge / Happy Hour

Sunday, October 10

Icon Key:   Presentation   Discussion   Panel   Workshop   Edit-a-thon

Time (US Eastern Time)	Track Red (Stage)	Track Blue (Stage)	Track Green (Breakout Room)	Edit-a-thons	Unconference (add your own!)
11:00 - 11:45 60 minutes				Editatona (Part 1: Workshop)
11:45 - 12:00 15 minutes	Welcome to Day 3 of WikiConference North America 2021! Greeting from Maryana Iskander, incoming CEO, Wikimedia Foundation
12:00 - 12:30 30 minutes	Maryana Iskander Listening Tour and feedback session with community Hosts: Phoebe Ayers, Andrew Lih [In Breakout Room]
12:30 - 13:10 40 minutes	Content translation tool tutorial	Wikipedia and the Representation of Reality		Editatona (Part 2: Edit-a-thon)	Mapping of Wikimedia activities to Sustainable Development Goals
13:15 - 13:40 25 minutes	Architects Build Wiki: A Pilot Campaign Featuring Black Architects of Detroit	Modeling NIOSH publications on Wikidata: a case study for beginners
13:45 - 14:10 25 minutes	Edit-a-thons in the time of COVID: Lessons learned during 18 months of online editing events		Lightning talks
14:10 - 14:20 10 minutes	Break
14:20 - 14:45 25 minutes	Plenary: New Maps for an Inclusive Wikipedia:  Strategies to Counter Systemic Bias (Carwil Bjork-James)
14:50 - 15:15 25 minutes	Wikimedia reducing major conflicts	¡Edita Wikipedia! Un curso de formación docente elaborado en alianza entre UNAM + WMMX
15:20 - 15:35 15 minutes	Towards a more environmentally sustainable Wikimedia Movement: The Wikimedia Affiliates Environmental Sustainability Covenant	Usando Wikipedia y Wikimedia Commons para la enseñanza del arte y la cultura
15:40 - 15:55 15 minutes	Cvillepedia: a case study in making a local wiki a more equitable, inclusive, and accessible archive of information	What is the coverage of the 30 most spoken North American indigenous languages in Wikipedia?
16:00 - 16:25 25 minutes	Wiki Loves Monuments in the US: Updates and Discussion	Participación y conocimiento libre en Wikipedia en español
16:30 - 17:00 30 minutes	Closing Session